Subject: Re: IPv6 local link address mystery?
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/02/1999 10:06:51
itojun@iijlab.net writes:

> 	Maybe we'll need to put a hack into ifconfig(8) to print decoded
> 	version (like printing "fe80::wwww:xxxx:yyyy:zzzz on de0") rather
> 	than the raw data from the kernel.  From normal users perspetive
> 	it may be better.

Perhaps, but from everything else it really sucks.  I'd have to fix
gated, netstat, and any of an hundred other programs not to simply
scan the interfaces and select addresses based on what is found there.

--Michael